Gas-fixture.



No. 727,102. PATENTED MAY 5.190s. .11. M. DAGGETT. I

GAS FIXTURE.

I APPLICATION FILED JULY 24' 1902 N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 5, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT M. DAGGETT, OF WOODBURY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR To WELSBAGI-I LIGHT COMPANY, OF GLOUCESTER CITY, NEW JERsEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

GAS-FIXTU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters I 'atent N 0. 727,102, dated May 5, 1903.

Application filed July 24, 1902.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT M. DACGETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Voodbury, in the county of Gloucester and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

Gas-fixtures are frequently provided with a cluster ofburners and with a valve by means of which one or more of these burners may be lighted, as by means of a pilot-light or otherwise, while the others are extinguished, and since such fixtures are frequently located high above the ground it has hitherto been difficult to properly position such valves, and this is especially true as it is often necessary to operate them in comparative darkness.

It is the object of the present invention to provide means whereby the valves of clusterburners may be rapidly, readily, and accurately positioned so as to light or extinguish all or a part of the burners.

To this and other ends hereinafter set forth the invention, stated in general terms, comprises the improvements to be presently described and finally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of the invention will be more fully understood from the following descriptiomtakn in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which Figure 1 is a view of means for operating the gas-valve of a cluster-burner which embody features of the invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are views illustrating difierent positions of the parts which embody the invention and Which are shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a transverse sectional view showing one position of the valve. Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the position of the valve when one burner is burning. Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken on the line 6 6 ofFigpl. 'Fig. 7 is a view of the plug of the valve, and Fig. Sis a section taken on the line 8 8 of Fig. 7.

In the drawings, 1 is the valve of a clusterburner, and for the'sake of description it may be said that in one position of its operatinglever 2 it shuts oi the gas from all of the burners. In another position, Fig. 5, it admits gas, for example, to one of the burners,

$erial No. 116,797. (No model.)

7 and in another position, Fig. 4, it admits gas to all of the burners. Of course the effects corresponding to the different-positions can be interchanged; but in the position shown in Fig. 1 it will be assumed that all of the burners are extinguished, and in the position shown in Fig. 2 that one is lighted and all the others are extinguished, and that as shown in Fig. 3 all of the burners are lighted. The lever 2 is a double-arm lever, and depending from its ends are rods or connections 3 and 4. At the ends of these rods or connections are rings, balls, handles, or indicators 5 and 6. There is another ring, ball, handle, or indicator 7, thatis connected with the rings, balls, or handles 5 and 6 by means of connections, as cords or chains 8 and 9.

The mode of operation of the described mechanism may be explained as follows: To extinguish all of the lights, it is simply necessary to draw down the middle ring, .ball, or handle 7, which is of course an easy thing to do. The result of it is to cause the pull to be transmitted evenly to the opposite ends of the operating-lever}, which is thereby positioned in horizontal position. To light one light, all that is necessary tobe done is to draw down the ring, ball, or handle 6. Of course this pull is transferred by way of the connection 4 to one end of the operating-lever, so that the latter is drawn into the position shown in Fig. 2, and one light is therefore lighted if provision as a climbing-lighter'is made. To light all of the lights, the ring, ball, or handle 5 is drawn down, and this pull is transferred by the connection 3 to the lever 2, which is put into the position shown in Fig. 3.

arm operating-lever, connections depending from the armsof the lever and provided respectively with handles, and a third handle and connections between the third handle and the other two, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a cluster light valve havinga plurality of ways, of a doublearm operating-lever, articulated connections extending from one of said arms to the other, and three handles interposed in said connections and whereof two are arranged at equal 1 distances from the ends of the arm and whereof the third is arranged equidistant between the other two, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name.

HERBE RT M. DAGGETT.

In presence of GEO. S. BARROWS, CHAS. ROGERS, Jr. 

